| Man has gone to the
moon, we've sent satellites into orbits around Earth,
even sent rovers to Mars so that they can wander around
on the surface, but have we ever taken a TARDIS and made
it possible to travel throughout the entire galaxy at
any point in time in simply a matter of seconds?
Probably not, and it's not likely that we'll achieve the
level of space travel that the Doctor is capable of
anytime soon. According to one lecture found from
Stephen Hawking, "If one couldn't go faster than light,
the round trip to the nearest star, would take at least
eight years, and to the center of the galaxy, at least
eighty-thousand years. If the space ship went very near
the speed of light, it might seem to the people on
board, that the trip to the galactic center had taken
only a few years. But that wouldn't be much consolation,
if everyone you have known was dead and forgotten
thousands of years ago, when you got back." And of
course, this is all what physicists have concluded about
space travel, if it were actually possible.
Again since we are unable to accelerate anything to the
speed of light, let alone past it, it is unlikely that
the Doctor's adventures are ever possible. Many scenes
during the various episodes show him in the TARDIS
floating around in space, able to reach one planet in
the blink of an eye, and for this to happen the only
real way is for him to be moving much faster
than the speed of light. |
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However, his ability
to travel around the solar system so quickly doesn't
even breach the many issues with him being able to
travel in space. For one, where does he get air from? In
one episode it's described that the TARDIS has an air
"field" around it which allows him to breath anywhere
(including underwater). However in space, this effect
likely wouldn't be possible without some sort of way to
contain the air. In addition to his ability to breath,
there's the fact that he is able to move the TARDIS
without any visible thrusters. Since there is no gravity
in space we know that to move forward there must be some
force pushing you there, and there is never any
force visibly created, he just moves. |
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